Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 333 284 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.63% 8.24% 6.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.80% 38.80% 25.14%
Number of salaries quoted 186 121 345
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,565 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +1.03% -18.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £74,375 £92,500 £79,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 957 732 1,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.17% 21.25% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 719 440 1,583
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,625 £44,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -14.40%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +20 131 £56,250 +12.50% 39
Oxfordshire +2 123 £60,000 -4.00% 34
Buckinghamshire +5 79 £56,000 -13.85% 22
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.80%) Confluence
2 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.60%) WordPress
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.30%) Camunda
4 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 62 (18.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.90%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 163 (48.95%) Azure
2 111 (33.33%) AWS
3 75 (22.52%) Power Platform
4 69 (20.72%) Azure AI
5 31 (9.31%) GCP
6 17 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (5.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 17 (5.11%) GitHub
7 15 (4.50%) Serverless
8 14 (4.20%) OpenShift
9 13 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (3.90%) Cloudflare
10 11 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (2.70%) SaaS
12 7 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.80%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.71%) Firewall
2 21 (6.31%) DNS
3 10 (3.00%) VPN
4 8 (2.40%) SSL
4 8 (2.40%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.80%) HTTP
6 5 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.90%) DHCP
7 3 (0.90%) MQTT
8 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.60%) Internet
8 2 (0.60%) Wireless
9 1 (0.30%) Broadband
9 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.30%) Network Security
9 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.30%) SMTP
9 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.30%) SpaceWire
9 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.52%) Power BI
2 50 (15.02%) Tableau
3 24 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 9 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.80%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.50%) Airbyte
7 5 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.20%) MySQL
9 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.60%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.60%) Redis
10 2 (0.60%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.30%) Big Data
11 1 (0.30%) GIS
11 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.30%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 41 (12.31%) Git
2 25 (7.51%) GitLab
3 18 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.50%) JIRA
5 8 (2.40%) JUnit
6 7 (2.10%) JMeter
6 7 (2.10%) Mockito
7 6 (1.80%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.50%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.90%) Polyspace
10 3 (0.90%) VectorCAST
11 2 (0.60%) Mocha
11 2 (0.60%) PetaLinux
11 2 (0.60%) Selenium
12 1 (0.30%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.30%) Storybook
12 1 (0.30%) Subversion
12 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 144 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (10.21%) Finance
4 32 (9.61%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.80%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.40%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.80%) Retail
11 5 (1.50%) Automotive
11 5 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.50%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.50%) Law
12 4 (1.20%) Games
13 3 (0.90%) Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Marketing
14 2 (0.60%) Electronics
14 2 (0.60%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 80 (24.02%) Analyst
2 79 (23.72%) Software Engineer
3 63 (18.92%) Python Engineer
4 61 (18.32%) Data Analyst
5 53 (15.92%) Python Software Engineer
6 49 (14.71%) Junior
7 48 (14.41%) Junior Analyst
7 48 (14.41%) Junior Data Analyst
8 39 (11.71%) Developer
9 36 (10.81%) C++ Software Engineer
10 27 (8.11%) C# Software Engineer
11 26 (7.81%) Senior
12 23 (6.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 21 (6.31%) Data Engineer
14 19 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (5.41%) Network Engineer
16 17 (5.11%) AWS Software Engineer
17 12 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
17 12 (3.60%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.11%) REST
2 22 (6.61%) JSON
3 14 (4.20%) HTML
3 14 (4.20%) React
3 14 (4.20%) YAML
4 13 (3.90%) Django
4 13 (3.90%) NumPy
4 13 (3.90%) Pandas
5 11 (3.30%) XML
6 10 (3.00%) Jinja
6 10 (3.00%) Web Services
7 8 (2.40%) Spring
7 8 (2.40%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.10%) .NET
8 7 (2.10%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (2.10%) Apache Camel
8 7 (2.10%) CSS
8 7 (2.10%) Hibernate
8 7 (2.10%) jQuery
8 7 (2.10%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (6.31%) Low-Code
3 19 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (5.11%) Distributed Computing
5 16 (4.80%) Algorithms
6 15 (4.50%) Cloud Native
6 15 (4.50%) Life Science
7 14 (4.20%) Client/Server
8 11 (3.30%) Hackathon
8 11 (3.30%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.40%) PKI
11 7 (2.10%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.80%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.20%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 72 (21.62%) Linux
2 25 (7.51%) Windows
3 6 (1.80%) Unix
4 3 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.60%) Debian
5 2 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.60%) Gentoo
6 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.30%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (35.14%) AI
2 89 (26.73%) Software Engineering
3 81 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 78 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (21.92%) Business Intelligence
6 69 (20.72%) Agile
7 54 (16.22%) DevOps
8 45 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (13.21%) Computer Science
10 43 (12.91%) Analytics
11 39 (11.71%) Containerisation
12 38 (11.41%) Test Automation
13 35 (10.51%) Machine Learning
14 31 (9.31%) Data Modelling
15 30 (9.01%) Deployment Automation
16 27 (8.11%) Data Governance
16 27 (8.11%) Full-Stack Development
17 26 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
17 26 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
18 23 (6.91%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 101 (30.33%) SQL
2 66 (19.82%) C++
3 53 (15.92%) C#
4 48 (14.41%) JavaScript
5 35 (10.51%) Java
6 29 (8.71%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.51%) Bash
8 22 (6.61%) TypeScript
9 20 (6.01%) C
10 16 (4.80%) Rust
11 12 (3.60%) VBA
12 11 (3.30%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.80%) Groovy
14 5 (1.50%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.20%) Go
15 4 (1.20%) Perl
15 4 (1.20%) R
16 3 (0.90%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.90%) Ruby
17 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 81 (24.32%) Degree
2 70 (21.02%) Azure Certification
3 50 (15.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (10.21%) Security Cleared
5 29 (8.71%) SC Cleared
6 20 (6.01%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (2.70%) ACCA
8 9 (2.70%) CIMA
9 8 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (2.10%) PhD
11 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.90%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.60%) GCIA
13 2 (0.60%) GIAC
13 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.30%) CISSP
14 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.21%) QA
2 15 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.90%) ECSS
5 3 (0.90%) IEC 61508
5 3 (0.90%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.60%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.60%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.30%) MISRA
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (10.51%) Docker
2 26 (7.81%) Hyper-V
2 26 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.91%) KVM
4 11 (3.30%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.11%) Terraform
3 14 (4.20%) Graylog
4 12 (3.60%) Ansible
5 9 (2.70%) Proxmox
6 8 (2.40%) Kibana
6 8 (2.40%) ZABBIX
7 7 (2.10%) Grafana
7 7 (2.10%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.50%) Argo
9 4 (1.20%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.20%) Packer
10 3 (0.90%) Istio
11 2 (0.60%) Podman
12 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 96 (28.83%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.81%) VMware
3 14 (4.20%) Red Hat
3 14 (4.20%) SAP
4 11 (3.30%) Cisco
5 10 (3.00%) Oracle
5 10 (3.00%) Splunk
6 9 (2.70%) Databricks
7 8 (2.40%) IBM
7 8 (2.40%) Veeam
8 7 (2.10%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.50%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.50%) F5
9 5 (1.50%) Google
9 5 (1.50%) Juniper
9 5 (1.50%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.50%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.90%) MuleSoft